The Dangers of Plastic: Interview with Charles Moore

i reuse plastic bags (even wash & dry'em) & carry items in hand. i keep a plastic bag in my back pocket which gets used till it breaks. then it's still ok 2 pic up doggy dodo. the stickler 4 me is the plastic water bottles. the water is gross out of the tap even filtered. standardized industrial packaging would help reduce waste by means of every products containers being interchangeable by all industries regardless of location.
DON'T LITTER!! IT'S DANGEROUS TO MARINE LIFE.

I can't stand how the "Illuminati" types here are willing to spend the rest of their lives surfing this site scaring the shit out of people(like myself) with all the quite real dangers we have to deal with in today's world...yet when you ask them for solutions, they almost always look you in the eye, yawn in your face, and go on to the next YouTube video. I think the imminent end of mankind is a possibility, and EVEN I'M NOT THAT PESSIMISTIC.
Who're the REAL sinners here?

what do you mean TomSwervo1?
is it not obvious problem with plastic polution?
maybe not experienced directly now for you and me..
science can find better solutions but maybe someone will stop it,
I am not scientist to bring solution for this problem, but I can stop using plast as much as possible

Where do we start? Where do I start?

Just stop using plastic items whenever you can: take your own bag at the supermarket, choose glasbottles when you have the choice ... just little steps, but its the only chance we have. 2. DO NOT LITTER! All the tiny things you may drop at the street will end in the ocean one time. Respect mother earth. Be aware!

i was replying to your comment how you need to filter mouthss of rivers to keep stuff out of the ocean.. read whats been written. personaly, i prefer glass bottles. see no reason why they are forcing plastics

dinkolino2, glass requires far more energy to make and, because it is heavier, more energy to ship. It is also dangerously sharp when it breaks.

you can reuse glass a LOT of times. shipping is the least problem. but i agree that plastic is irreplaceable in many ways. it should just be burned properly or recycled.. one could ofcourse use less of it. its so cheap that its "expensive" to recycle.. nayway, thats not what i was arguing in the first place :)

dinkolino2, you have to heat it to about 1500 degrees, that takes a ton of energy. If you want to recycle, use steel, it is the most recycled material because it is easy to filter trash with a magnet. When I was a kid all, all drink bottles were glass and the store would pay you 5 cents for a returned empty. You couldn't go barefoot in lakes and rivers because you would step on a broken bottle. Broken glass was everywhere.

that has less to do with glass as such and more with the culture of the people.. beer, vine, and a lot of other things are still in glass and u dont see glass everywhere.. the same way you would see plastic bottles in lakes and rivers. wouldnt want to go to a lake like that either. i know you have to heat it a lot (dont know hich degrees are these, i presume fahrenheit?). whats your point in the end :)?